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PAX East DVD in Question???
MJPM
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During the 2nd Q & A panel, Tycho was answering a question pertaining to getting video of the Saturday Night performances (specifically VGO), and in the course of his response insinuated that PAX East would be presented in the form of (an) extended PA TV episode(s), and that there would not necessarily be a DVD. After the response he received from us after delivering that news, he retracted his statement, pending a regroup with those involved.
This is a plea to all of us here to let PA know that we very, very much want a PAX East DVD. There is demand for it, and after seeing 2 Player's production of PAX '09, if the same effort is put in to this DVD, it would be one of the best, bar none.
Please let the PAX East DVD live!
Also, thank you to all of those involved in the Community DVD project. You may be needed more than ever now due to this revelation. Let's all do our very best to ensure the moments and memories of PAX East live on!
This is a plea to all of us here to let PA know that we very, very much want a PAX East DVD. There is demand for it, and after seeing 2 Player's production of PAX '09, if the same effort is put in to this DVD, it would be one of the best, bar none.
Please let the PAX East DVD live!
Also, thank you to all of those involved in the Community DVD project. You may be needed more than ever now due to this revelation. Let's all do our very best to ensure the moments and memories of PAX East live on!
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Maybe they should just set up a pre-order page to determine if there's enough demand.
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at this point its not really about the demand, its more down to whether or not they've recorded enough of the con to make a dvd set. the response at the Q&A proved that there is a high demand for it and that most, if not all, were disappointed by the news that there wouldn't be one. so now its just a matter of waiting to see how much footage they have, what its off and whether or not they'll be able to throw something together.
perhaps the Community DVD Project could help them out with anything they're missing so that those who couldn't some and those why just want another momento don't miss out.
as with a few other things it seems that they really underestimated just how popular PAX East would be and i'm sure they're more disappointed than we are that they haven't been able to meet the huge demand not just for the show but for all the things that we hoped wout come with it.
still, despite everything they did a tremendous job pulling it off and keeping everything together. which means that next year should be bigger and better.
This is exactly what I was thinking this year. I usually don't feel too bad about missing the 'big' panels because I know I can catch them on the DVD. If I knew I was SOL I would have made a more concerted effort to stand in line.
As for the official DVD, I do still hope that PA/2PP puts one out. I know Mike said a few months ago when they released the PAX09 DVD that it may be the last one, and that's why we stepped up our game, but we wouldn't want to take their place.
So in the possible (or likely) absence of an official DVD, our set should at least be satisfying enough.
Anyway, I think they should put out a DVD of all the great stuff that they got on film. I don't care if it's not as content-packed as the 2009 box set. I think a lot of people would buy a DVD from each PAX that they go to... I know the cameras were there for the major panels, the behind-the-scenes stuff, and that's all that matters to most. Take care.
It is depressing that they won't release any of it aside from a short PATV episode. Hopefully they will eventually do something about it.
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I hope.
Take care.
Also, you guys may not realize, but that DVD set contains six DVDs, *six*! There are tons of stuff there, hours. The Wil Wheaton hour alone was totally worth it. I'm not meaning to sound like I'm hawking it, but considering that most compilations like that are only a couple DVDs this was a total wealth of stuff, the full concerts and everything. So personally I say no complaining about the price. They gave us a lot of stuff for it.
Heh, it's also an excellent way to introduce friends to the experience. We were raving about Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton to our friends and they just went, "Meh". They didn't know what they were missing and so just shrugged. We're going to force them to sit and watch the '09 concerts later today and after they've totally enjoyed it we'll say, "See???"
If you're able to purchase it guys, do. Watching it felt like being at a PAX, even if it wasn't PAX East (and East was my first too). I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling sad to be back in the regular world where people aren't as nice as cool as at PAX. My fiance and I were alternately laughing our asses off and going "awwww" while watching it, and we've only watched one disc so far.
Thanks for making the DVD set guys, seriously. At the end of the Wil Wheaton hour a girl stood up and spoke about how lonely she'd been most of her life, having to hide her geekiness most of the time, but at PAX she didn't have to.... Even Wil got teary eyed, and so did I. I'm so glad not to feel alone.
I'm actually surprised at some of the panels and events not up on Youtube yet from PAX East.
The other issue I had was that the Jonathan Coulton set on the official '09 DVD is not complete. There's like 3 or 4 songs missing if I remember correctly. I understand their reasoning for that, but it's still a deal breaker for me, as some of those were the most memorable parts of that night.
Regardless of what they do and what my team does, I will always support the official DVD, and I honestly don't want them to stop either. And I will purchase the '09 DVD, someday...
I am very thrilled to hear that.
And I'm a bit surprised about the lack of content online as well. I'll be uploading some of our footage soon, and I'm going to look into uploading full panels, but we'll see how it goes.
I wholeheartedly understand. Some of the Q&A stuff was cut, including the presentation of the Triwizard Pub Crawl House cup to Gabe and Tycho, which included my buddy with the Raven Claw flag (so many shenanigans Thursday night with Raven Claw...) that pissed me off. I also agree with you about the JoCo cuts as well.
I just checked my Flip Mino and apparently I also neglected to upload some videos I caught, including "It's Pitch Dark" and "Tongue-Clucking Grammarian" from the MC Frontalot set, so I am equally guilty. Youtube HO!
Just pulled out my '09 DVD and I now am seriously "homesick" for PAX.
Oh yeah, it's worth mentioning that there was a distinct lack of a presence by the 2 Player Productions guys on the stage this year. There were a few, especially off the stage, but not near as many as PAX 09. I'd say odds of an East DVD are pretty low by that indication alone. They just didn't plan for it by the looks of things. This does not rule out DVD sets in the future, but demand will have to be pretty evident/solid in order for them to move forward with another, I'm sure.
Now identifying a problem and proposing solutions are very different skills, and I don't know if this idea is even what's called for, but: why not make a main page post explaining the 2 Player Productions relationship and what everyone expects from this, and let people know that they are voting with their wallets?
It felt to me that PA explicitly spent more money on a professional video production crew for 09 because they wanted the DVDs to be higher quality and a better representation of the convention, and that's all. It never occured to me that this could be a market experiment, that a "do this again next year? Y/N" decision rested upon sales figures. I thought the whole 2 Player thing was designed to lose money but gain community
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Sorry if I was confusing. Please don't punch me in the face next PAX, Enforcer Hicks. Your work on the pre-2009 DVDs was great, really!
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As for the PAX '09 DVD box set, I actually had a major problem with them as the first DVD has an error on it. The reproduction process left a blank track on the DVD making it unreadable, it occurs just at the end of the keynote given by Ron Gilbert. I emailed PA store and they sent me a new one, sadly with the same error. I explained the problem to them and they said they'd look into the problem. I haven't heard anything since and it's been over a 6 weeks now. Not a happy bunny, especially considering I had to pay $18 TAX duty on the thing on top of $40 for the DVD itself!